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Today, VMware is launching Horizon Suite , which we first learned about at VMworld last fall. Coming out of VMworld, I remember having the impression that despite being let down in the past by announcements that were never seen through to releases, VMware...
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February 20, 2013
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Earlier this week, I wrote about my initial thoughts on the Chromebook , and I talked a little bit about HTML5 remote desktop clients, specifically AccessNow from Ericom. In the comments, we also heard from the creator of Spark View, Walter Wang. Walter...
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Gabe Knuth
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June 24, 2011
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At my Desktop Virtualization 2011 event in Atlanta last week (which will be in Detroit this week and St. Louis next week), one of the questions I was asked was, "Which is better: XenDesktop or View?" I've historically answered that question with some...
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Brian Madden
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June 07, 2011
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One of the most exciting things I hope we'll see very soon is thin client devices running Android . I'm not talking about Android netbooks or tablets, rather, I'm interested in an honest-to-goodness legitimate desktop thin client that runs...
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Brian Madden
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March 22, 2011
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VMware just announced availability of a PC-over-IP -based View client for the Apple iPad. It's just now become available in the Apple App Store, so I'll be downloading it this week to try out. In the meantime, I was able to sit down with VMware's...
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Brian Madden
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March 09, 2011
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One of the cooler things that's happened for Citrix recently is that they've managed to hire Lee Rautenberg , the inventor of pcAnywhere, to join them as a principal software engineer. (This is actually pretty awesome and ironic, since back in...
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Brian Madden
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November 22, 2010
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On Brian Madden TV last week, we talked about a number of the PC-to-Thin Client conversion products on the market, and it became pretty clear that there are quite a few products out there. Each of these products fits into one of two categories, so it...
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Gabe Knuth
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September 29, 2009
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This is our third VMworld 2009 wrap-up show. This week we're focusing on client devices. Brian talks about his mini-crush on Wyse. They had a lot of impressive stuff at the show, including: New C-class client devices (small, cheap things with dedicated...
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Brian Madden TV
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September 24, 2009
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Cool, finally we released it. My colleagues Peter Nap and Rodney Medina ( www.softgridblog.com ) made the free App-v USB tool available for download. With this App-V USB Tool you can distribute your apps via USB sticks. The App-V USB Tool is an add-on...
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Jeroen van de Kamp
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August 27, 2009
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For at the past few years, I've talked about how I think that platform hypervisors are going to move towards the hardware in the future, leaving the current market players sitting not on their own hypervisors, but on a suite of tools to manage/extend...
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Gabe Knuth
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June 03, 2009
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It’s been about a year since I first wrote about Citrix’s “ app publishing tax ” (and how they’ve tried to address it ). Since then they’ve done countless promotions, bundling options, deals, and repackaging. But the...
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Brian Madden
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May 15, 2009
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After months and months of work, a preview version of Citrix’s ICA client (err.. “receiver” in their new nomenclature) is now available as a 0.9 version for free in the iPhone App Store. ( iTunes link ) The new client, which works on...
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Brian Madden
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March 30, 2009
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Symantec bought Altiris in January 2007 , AppStream in last April , and connection broker maker nSuite last August . It seemed that they were on the path to becoming a “real” player in the desktop virtualization space, although we hadn’t really heard...
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Brian Madden
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March 09, 2009
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Two months ago, VMware bought a company called Trango and launched the VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform. Back then I wrote that the Trango acquisition was not about running VDI or Windows on a mobile phone, but instead about allowing multiple phone...
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Brian Madden
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January 16, 2009
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Earlier this week, I had a briefing with Ericom and came away with an interesting bit of information about their upcoming PowerTerm Webconnect release. "True Media Experience," which uses a technology developed by Ericom called Reverse Seamless...
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Gabe Knuth
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December 17, 2008
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It's been almost a year since Microsoft bought Calista Technologies , a non-shipping set of technologies that leverages host and client-based GPUs for 3D and multimedia remoting. Since the acquisition, Microsoft has been mum about the technology....
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Brian Madden
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November 21, 2008
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Now that the early adopters have had their fun with XenApp 5, the path has been cleared for the wait-and-see crowd to get their hands a little dirty in the sandbox. Citrix has announced over 50 new features and enhancements, and we're going to take...
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Gabe Knuth
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November 17, 2008
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For those who would like a quick “Google-able” article on how to deploy the new XenApp Web Plugin (formerly known as the web client) this is the article for you. To do this, you basically follow the instructions from CTX114097, “Deploying...
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Katie Koepke
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November 10, 2008
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Last month, Citrix showed a mockup of what an ICA client for the iPhone could look like. Does this represent the future of application access, or is this just a neat party trick?...
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Jack Madden
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July 16, 2008
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My good buddy Gus over at Citrix posted up today that the latest and greatest XenApp client package is available for beta. These clients support Windows Vista, XP, 2003 & 2000 Citrix is looking for users to test drive the latest version of the XenApp...
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Michael Keen
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June 02, 2008
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